'Replacement' definitions:
Definition of 'replacement'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy" [syn: replacement, replacing]
noun
noun
An event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" [syn: substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch]
noun
A person or thing that takes or can take the place of another [syn: substitute, replacement]
noun
Filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal]
noun
A person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor" [syn: successor, replacement]
Definition of 'Replacement'
From: GCIDE
- Replacement \Re*place"ment\ (-ment), n.
- 1. The act of replacing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Crystallog.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'replacement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agency,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- backup,
- backup man,
- change,
- changeling,
- commutation,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- delegation,
- deputation,
- deputy,
- deputyship,
- descendant,
- displacement,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- heir,
- imitation,
- improvement,
- inheritor,
- instauration,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- next best thing,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- posterity,
- power of attorney,
- proxy,
- quid pro quo,
- reactivation,
- reconstitution,
- reconversion,
- redintegration,
- reenactment,
- reestablishment,
- reformation,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- reinstation,
- reinstitution,
- reinvestiture,
- reinvestment,
- relief,
- representation,
- representative,
- reserves,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- reversion,
- ringer,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- subrogation,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- successor,
- supersedence,
- superseder,
- superseding,
- supersedure,
- supersession,
- supplantation,
- supplanter,
- supplanting,
- supplantment,
- surrogate,
- switch,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- tit for tat,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicariousness,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent